Departure [DVD]

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Product Description An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realization that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other. DEPARTURE is an intimate story that begins at dawn on the first day and ends at night on the sixth, charting the end of a summer, the end of a childhood and the end of an otherwise nuclear, middleclass family. Review An assuredly composed coming-of-age tale. --Screen DailyAndrew Steggall s debut feature shows considerable promise with the sensitivity of its emotional and aesthetic palette in sketching an English mother and teenage son s unhappy sojourn to shutter a rural French vacation home... --VarietyBeautifully shot, quietly involving character study powered by an excellent turn from teenaged talent Lawther, who played the young Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. --Empire Magazine